Popular Canadian Rapper Drake on Friday announced that he is taking a break from music, just hours after dropping his latest album.
He pointed out that the decision was in order to focus on recurring ‘stomach issues’.
“I probably won’t make music for a little bit, I’m gonna be honest,” he said on his SiriusXM radio show Table For One adding: “I need to focus on my health first and foremost… I need to get right.”
“I’ve been having the craziest problems for years with my stomach,” he explained.
Africa Today News, New York reports that the 36-year-old Grammy Award winner had just released his latest studio album ‘For All The Dogs.’
His five-year-old son Adonis was featured in a music video for a new single off the album called “8AM in Charlotte.”
It’s unclear if the hiatus will affect upcoming concert dates, including Friday and Saturday shows in Toronto, where fans were already seen lining up.
Drake mentioned that he would meet unspecified commitments.
“I got some other things I need to do for some other people that I made promises,” he said.
Otherwise, he said, “I’m gonna lock the door in the studio for a little bit,” Drake added. “I don’t even know what a little bit is. Maybe a year or so, maybe a little longer.”
Recall that Drake, had a few months ago stirred the emotions of Nigerians after he made a revelation about his ancestry online.
Drake took to his Insta Story to share a screenshot of the results of his dad’s DNA ancestry test which showed that he’s partly Nigerian.
The result, which he said was sent to him by Dennis Graham, his dad, showed he is ’30 percent Nigerian.’
Exited, the singer asked his fans if he could finally call himself a ‘Naija man.’
‘This my dad’s results, does this mean I’m a Naija man finally?’ Drake asked.
The screenshot which was sighted by Africa Today News, New York also showed Nigeria has the highest percentage of ethnicity followed by Cameroon, Congo, and Western Bantu Peoples, which is 28 percent, then Ivory Coast and Ghana, 11 percent.